Head - Technology/CTO

Skills:

- Minimum experience: 15+ years in global software companies and minimum 5+ years experience in leading large engineering teams

- Leadership experience in managing the large engineering team, preferably in commerce technology and/or digital marketing

- In depth knowledge and practical experience of modern engineering

- Cross browser and platform development experience, including web development for mobile and tablet

- A detailed understanding of Internet technologies (HTTP, caching, CDNs, DNS)

- Experienced in development practices such as source code control and change management, and documentation

- Broad knowledge in digital space with exposure to content management systems, marketing systems, CRM & commerce

- Experience of conducting discovery phases and client workshops to explore technical and solution requirements.

- Experience with managing technical software projects with good understanding of the business processes.

- Candidate shall have experience in working in Agile environment.

- Thorough understanding of software engineering practices and methodologies.

Deep knowledge of any two of the following platforms

- Salesforce Commerce Cloud

- Salesforce Marketing Cloud

- Salesforce CRM

- Adobe Experience Manager

- Sitecore

- Cloud Craze

- Drupal

- X/HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML and SQL

- Modern Databases

- A thorough knowledge of best practices of Quality Assurance and control

- Practical experience of developing sites using responsive design

- Excellent verbal and written English

- Should have experience in Team management skills, team accountability and reporting, customer facing skills and consulting skills.

- Knowledge of Web accessibility according to WAI guidelines and W3C coding standards

- An understanding of site performance issues and strategies to optimize

- Experience of modern JavaScript frameworks such as Backbone, Angular

- Experience of JavaScript libraries such as Modernizr, YepNope, Underscore, Require etc.